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Vacarius

Roman law scholar

Gratian

Italian scholar

Innocent IV

pope

St. Basil the Great

bishop of Caesarea

Gregory IX

pope

Hincmar of Reims

French theologian

St. Raymond of Peñafort

Spanish friar

John IV of Odzun

Armenian Orthodox catholicos

Hugh of Saint-Cher

French cardinal

Guillaume Durand

French scholar

Dionysius Exiguus

canonist

Saint Nicodemus the Hagiorite

Greek monk

Matthew Blastares

Greek theologian and scholar

John Scholasticus

Syrian theologian and jurist

Saint Ivo of Chartres

French bishop

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